If you follow us on social media (especially during #Noirvember), it’s no secret, we love Film Noir. Why? Well, we wrote about that, but the TL;DR version—we love an underdog. And that’s what Film Noir was in a nutshell. It was usually a small-budget movie from a B Studio. The […]
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With tv shows like Fargo, True Detective, The Killing, Ozark, Mindhunter, Broadchurch, Top of the Lake, The Americans, Veronica Mars, Luther, and The Dublin Murders (we’re really excited to check that one out). It seems that we have been in the middle of a Neo-Noir renaissance for some time now. […]
The best known group of works by James Ellroy, The LA Quartet covers the years 1946 to 1958 in Los Angeles and it’s about as noir as you can get. It’s bleak, brutal, and beautifully written. With this being the last week of Noirvember I figured it was worthwhile to […]
With Noirember right around the corner we thought we’d give you a list of movies to watch in celebration. If you couldn’t tell from our previous articles, we love film noir. And we love talking about our love of film noir almost as much as we love watching them. So […]
I once made the acquaintance of a man who told me he never watched a movie that was made before 1977 (because Star Wars debuted in ‘77). This shithead went to film school and he just wrote off everything made during the Golden Age of Hollywood. There’s a word that […]
I was going to write an article about how influential Orson Welles and Fritz Lang were for us and many other people in our industry and then the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences went and pissed a lot of people off with their decision to present the awards […]
We’re feeling festive over here at American Pulps and decided to put together an American Pulps Christmas Movie list. Granted this isn’t a list of the best Christmas movies, there’s some that we love that aren’t on here. This is merely a list of movies that resemble our work so; […]
We’re gonna take a deep dive into Film Noir. It’s an aesthetic that’s as American as apple pie, meaning it was shaped in America but influenced from people elsewhere as well. I’m gonna break this down to a few categories. 1.) The content, the story 2.) The cinematography, what is the […]